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Patented Nov. l, 1927.

UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.`

ROBERT H. IVIlJIllll'iLER, 0F DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO. ADOLFIIM'UELLER, V TRUSTEE, OF IJECAEUR,` ILLINOIS.

` `I.triennal-'ruis FAUonT.

Application filed October 17, 1925. Serial No.` 63,194.

The presentinvention relates to improvements in laundry tub faucets,particularly of that character in which a swinging nozzle is provide-dso that the faucet may deliver water to either tub of a two-tub fixture.

One ofthe objects ofthe invention is to provide a means for supportingthe faucet which will not` require the employment of special attachingmeans on the faucet body.

Heretoforeit has been proposed to mount a faucet on a laundry tub bymeans of legs which required that the faucet body be provided withspecial lugs or attaching means for engagement therewith.

By the present invention, however, a support is provided which isadapted to engage the ordinary connection between the faucet outlet andswinging nozzle and which may be used with ordinary faucet bodiesinstead of requiring a special form of such body to engage thesupporting devices.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan of an embodiment of the invention as applied to alaundry tray comprising two tubs or compartments.

Fio'ure 2 is an elevation of the parts shown in Figure 1 with the footportions of the supporting yoke shown in section.

Figure 3 1s an end elevation.

Figure 4 .is a view similar to Figure 3, but showing the faucet supportin reversed position.

Figure 5 is a section through the connection between the swinging nozzleand faucet outlet and the` means of engaging the support therewith.

In the several figures of the drawing corresponding parts are designatedby the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the rear wall of a laundry traywhich is shown as being of the type having two tubs or compartmentsseparated by a vertical division wall 2.

The particular form of faucet illustrated comprises a relativelyelongated body 3 having suitable inlets with which connect hot and coldwater supply pipes 4:, 5, respectively, and a common outlet 6, withwhich is connected a swinging nozzle 7 Flow through the faucet iscontrolled by valves connected with handles 8, 8, in the usual manner. A

As the invention is adapted for use with various forms of faucet, it isnot necessary to describe more in detail the particular emu bodimentillustrate-d.

y The faucet is supported from the rear wall 1 of the laundry tubs by ayoke shaped support which has an eye or passage formed in yoke shapedsupport are shapedto embrace theupper edge of the wall 1 of the tubs.and each is secured in position on said wall by a set screw 11. Asshown, one of the lugs or jaws 12 of each foot of the supporting yoke issubstantially in the vertical plane of one edge of such yoke, while theother coacting jaw or clamp member 13 is offset to a considerable extentfrom the yoke, being connected therewith by a horizontal member 14.

By this particular arrangement of clamping jaws the faucet may bereadily positioned in substantial vertical alignment with the inner orouter edge of the rear wall of the tub. As shown in Figure 3, the faucetis arranged in substantial alignment with the inner edge of the tub walland the offset jaw 13 engages the outer face of such wall. However, asshown in Figure 4r, the position of the yoke with respect to the tub maybe readily reversed, the offset jaw 13 being positioned against theinner face of the tub wall and thereby the body of the faucet will besupported in substantial alignment with the rear edge of the tub.

In either of the two positions of the support just referred to theconnection thereof with the faucet is not varied. Under both conditionsthe faucet is supported centrally by the yoke, the eye or passage in thehead 9 receiving the connection between the faucet outlet 6 and swingingnozzle 7 at all times.

While it will be evident that the present invention does not involve anyparticular connection between the swinging nozzle and faucet, there isillustrated in Figure 5 a form of connection which has been found. to bevery suitable. Such connection comprises a tube 1G, which is threadedinto the outlet 6 of the faucet and depends therefrom, passing throughthe eye in the head 9 of the supporting yoke. Into said sleeve extends atube 17 having a flange about its inner end which abuts a shoulderformed in the tube 1G. A plug 18 is threaded into the tube 16 about thetube 17 and compresses a suitable nected by a suitable threaded jointwith the nozzle'- 'L Y It desired, a set screw 2O may be provided in therear face of the head member 9 of the yoke, Which screw will engage thetube 16 of the outlet connection and effect a, rigid connection betweenthe faucet and yoke.

y It is believed that the advantages of the invention Will be readilyuppreeiated from the foregoing4 description and the drawing. It Will beseen that there is provided a Very simple vine-ans for Supportinganordinary faucet freni a laundry tub, and that it is not necessary toprovide anyspeeial means on the faucet body7 and supplemental totheconnection between its outlet and the swingingnozzle, for engaging thesupport7 In the drawings many ofV theparts are shown moe oi" lessdiagrarninatieally, and it is to be understood that there can bevariation :from the exactdetails shown Without departing fom theinvention.

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rlhe combination with a, faucet having: :m outlet passage extendingdownward :from its bodyand a. swinging nozzle eonununieating with saidpassage, of means for snpporting the faucet from a tub comprising itbody sui'iounding and adapted to be rotated to a limited extent`relative to the outlet passage of the nozzle, and two d-iyeifging legmembers formed integ'al with said body and each having` its free endbiiuicated to receive the edge of a tub wall.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ROBERT n. MUELLER.

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